{"id":20957,"date":"2013-06-03T05:28:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T09:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=20957"},"modified":"2013-06-04T15:26:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T19:26:44","slug":"what-wendy-wore-jck-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/what-wendy-wore-jck-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: JCK Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a great time at JCK Las Vegas<\/a>, the ginormous jewelry trade show. Friday night was all about drinks at the Wynn hotel with a group of lovely jewelry ladies, organized by the fabulous Shamila Jiwa<\/a>.\u00a0 I wore a lot of my designs, including the Empress Wu dragon ring<\/a> …<\/p>\n

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… which goes nicely with an Alexander McQueen dress from 2010 (previously seen here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Holding forth to Elizabeth and Jessica. Photo by Shamila.<\/p><\/div>\n

While hanging out at Parasol Down at the Wynn<\/a>, we were terrorized by a 30-foot-tall singing frog<\/a>, which appeared over the “Lake of Dreams.”<\/p>\n

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Click the photo to see my Vine video of the frog.<\/p><\/div>\n

We enjoyed ourselves despite the scary amphibian. Here I am with (from left) Erika Winters<\/a>, Jessica Cohen<\/a> of Lup Rocks, and Katrina Kelly<\/a> …<\/p>\n

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… and here is Brittany Siminitz of JCKmarketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I never got pictures with Cheryl Kremkow<\/a>, Monica Stephenson of iDazzle<\/a>, Barbara Palumbo,<\/a> or Shamila<\/a>. I blame the frog and all the other weird stuff that arose from the lake for distracting us from our paparazzi activities.<\/p>\n

Several of the ladies turned up to support me and Cheryl the following day, when we gave our talk on “The Next Generation Customer, Who Are They and How Do We Sell to Them.” The only reason I was at the show at all was because Cheryl graciously invited me to do that presentation with her. Cheryl blew everyone away with her lively and humorous talk on Millennials<\/a>. She had great data AND pictures of chihuahuas in t-shirts<\/a>. That, my friends, is a winning combination. Remember that for the next time you need to do any public speaking. Chihuahuas in t-shirts for the win. Cheryl also had a snappy way to describe the demand for customer service with\u00a0 TLC: “Warm is cool.” I spoke about how the smartphone and tablet generation — meaning the kids who have been born post-iPhone and -iPad — are going to smash through old ways of interacting online as dramatically as the female athlete in the iconic 1984 Apple Superbowl ad for its personal computers.<\/p>\n